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Driving the Future of PostgreSQL Adoption
by Umair Shahid, Percona (sponsor) , 15 November 2021
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The Inexorable Rise of PostgreSQL
by Matt Yonkovit, Percona (sponsor) , 24 September 2021
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Percona's Matt Yonkovit shares his view on why PostgreSQL is currently the hottest database in town, how liberal licensing has led to mass adoption, and why you should consider a switch to PostgreSQL.
» moreOpen source database management systems are now more popular than commercial offerings
by Matthias Gelbmann, 13 January 2021
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If we add up all the popularity scores of the 185 open source DBMSs in the DB-Engines ranking, then we get, for the first time, a higher score than the commercial counterparts.
» moreMariaDB strengthens its position in the open source RDBMS market
by Matthias Gelbmann, 5 April 2018
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MariaDB has reached a new all-time high in the DB-Engines Ranking, climbing to rank 14, up from rank 18 one year ago and from rank 25 three years ago. That is roughly a tripling of its popularity score in the last three years.
» moreExploring the trend towards open source database management systems
by Matthias Gelbmann, 3 November 2016
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The popularity of open source DBMSs, as measured by the DB-Engines Ranking, has reached a new record. We analyze the underlying details.
» moreEmerging and fading trends in database management systems
by Paul Andlinger, 4 October 2016
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Articles on database technologies are jammed with buzzwords and prophecies of new trends, just like any other technology. We use the collected data of our DB-Engines Ranking to have a look at some of these trends.
» moreMySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
by Paul Andlinger, 2 March 2016
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While the open-source DBMS show a very good performance in this months ranking, we monitor some popularity drops for the large commercial systems.
» moreOpen source RDBMS are gaining in popularity, but jobs are found elsewhere.
by Paul Andlinger, 2 September 2014
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The September ranking shows the open source systems MySQL and PostgreSQL as the clear winners of the relational category. But a deeper look into the ranking sources reveals, that jobs are rather offered for the commercial tools Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and DB2.
» moreOpen source DBMS's are gaining in popularity at the expense of commercial systems
by Paul Andlinger, 5 May 2014
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If we split up the popularity scores of the DB-Engines Ranking into open source vs. commercial database systems, the commercial systems are still leading by 59:41. However, that ratio is down from 64:36 at the beginning of last year.
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